The
Heart Wisdom series aims to make the teachings of Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
available to a wider audience, by bringing his oral teachings to the
written page. This volume brings together three talks by Ringu Tulku on
the topics of Rebirth, Working with a Spiritual Teacher and Death and
Dying; including calligraphies by Ringu Tulku on these themes.

How do you make yoghurt? With milk. But is yoghurt, milk? It is
not. Without milk, we cannot have yoghurt. But can we say that yoghurt
is the same substance as the original milk? No, it is not the same. Our
next life, or the next moment of this life the next moment of change,
the moment we move from one place to another or one instant to another
happens through a similar process. What I am now is not exactly what I
would be in my next life. It is different, like yoghurt is different to
milk. But if I was milk now, maybe, in the next life, I could become
yoghurt.

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist Master of the Kagyu Order. He was
trained in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism under many great masters such
as HH the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa and HH Dilgo Khentse Rinpoche. He took
his formal education at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok and
Sampurnananda Sanskrit University, Varanasi, India and has served as
Professor of Tibetology in Sikkim for 17 years. His doctoral thesis was
on the Ecumenical Movement in Tibet.
Since 1990 he has been traveling and teaching Buddhism and meditation
at more than 50 Universities, Institutes and Buddhist Centres in
Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Asia. He also participates in various
interfaith dialogues. He
authored several books on Buddhism as well as some childrens books both in Tibetan and European languages.

He founded Bodhicharya (www.bodhicharya.org ), an international
organization that coordinates the worldwide activities to preserve and
transmit Buddhist teachings, to promote inter-cultural dialogues and
educational & social projects. He also founded Rigul Trust which
supports his projects in his birthplace, Rigul, Tibet (
www.rigultrust.org ).

Rinpoche is the Official Representative of His Holiness the 17th
Karmapa for Europe and the Founder of Karmapa Foundation Europe (
www.karmapafoundation.eu).